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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Faulkner. Help with first name please.
« on: Wednesday 18 October 17 08:31 BST (UK)  »
I am most interested in the Falconer /Faulconer /Fawkner name and other similar names particularly in Sussex so more information would really help.
Joe

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South Africa / Re: Looking for info on Harrington family.
« on: Friday 15 September 17 09:34 BST (UK)  »
I cant help much but I was a great friend of a George Harrington before I left for Australia in late 1945 ....... he lived near me in Willesden North West London and a well known musician (saxophone).
Not sure if I am allowed to post this but he would be well past 100 years old so he may squeeze in.
Joe

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Great Uncle George
« on: Thursday 07 September 17 11:54 BST (UK)  »
Certainly the same bloke,same lugs,same hooter,same part in hair.........must be from the good looking part of the family Zin .... Like you .... I remember
Joe

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London and Middlesex / Re: Evacuees During the Second World War
« on: Sunday 20 August 17 11:40 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: carol8353 on Sunday 20 August 17 11:23 BST (UK)
Quote from: joboy on Sunday 20 August 17 11:20 BST (UK)
Do you have or have access to his death certificate ......... might yield something.
Joe

I'm not sure why his 1993 death cert would have anything about where he was evacuated to in WW2?
You are probably right ........... I don't know why I asked.
Joe

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London and Middlesex / Re: Evacuees During the Second World War
« on: Sunday 20 August 17 11:20 BST (UK)  »
Do you have or have access to his death certificate ......... might yield something.
Joe

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Armed Forces / Re: Royal Marines WW2 photographs
« on: Sunday 20 August 17 11:03 BST (UK)  »
Interesting and great photos your Royal Marine was I believe a gunner on an Landing Craft Guns (LCG) with a ramp at the fore end ..... not sure what their function was ..... to land guns?
The Japanese were surely captured and suitably identified by the paper on the arm.
I wonder if the site was Rabaul  where the Japanese surrendered?
Joe

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Armed Forces / Re: Royal Marines WW2 photographs
« on: Saturday 19 August 17 23:29 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Greenvale on Saturday 19 August 17 15:12 BST (UK)
If anyone thinks they may be of interest then I will happily post them on this thread.
I would like to see more as I was serving at the same time in the RM (now 90+).
I think he was having a bit of fun with the uniforms (hats in particular) swapping with the others as I cannot  remember RM's wearing anything other than beret's, peaked hats or helmets according to the occasion.
Thanks for posting them.
Joe




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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Placename in Norfolk please?
« on: Monday 19 June 17 11:52 BST (UK)  »
Further;
Tilney St Lawrence is located within a large parish of the same name, situated in the West Norfolk Local Government District. The parish has an area of 2,041 hectares (5,043 acres). The parish also contains the villages of Tilney St Lawrence, Tilney cum Islington and Islington. The parish that exists today used to be two separate parishes. They were Tilney St Lawrence and Tilney-cum-Islington which were combined in 1935 to form the fourth largest parish in the Marshland region. The name Tilney is thought to derive from the Old English for Tibba's homestead[4] and St Lawrence refers to the dedication of the village parish church. The name Islington is thought to derive from the Old English for enclosure of Elesa's people

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Placename in Norfolk please?
« on: Monday 19 June 17 11:47 BST (UK)  »
A possibility?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilney_St_Lawrence

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